Independent film · Global · 2026Film
Listen to Meh.
Purga Studio’s independent animated film follows a gaucho whose daily routine is disrupted by a sheep that keeps returning to his roof.
- Brand
- Independent film
- Agency
- Purga Studio
- Market
- Global
- Region
- Global
- Year
- 2026
The challenge
Build an independent short around a simple visual problem: a gaucho cannot keep a persistent sheep off his roof. The film was entered into Higgsfield’s open, international AI filmmaking competition.
The idea
The recurring rooftop encounter supplies the story’s central image and conflict. Purga Studio develops the relationship between the gaucho, the sheep and their rural surroundings through animation. The finished film and its public production project let viewers see both the story and the generated material behind it.
Results
- Festival cash prize: US$500,000.
Case study source: Higgsfield / filmmaker project Source ↗
Awards
- Higgsfield Global Film Festival 2026Freeform1st Place
Credits
- Studio
- Purga Studio
- Filmmaker
- Manuel Montes de Oca
- Filmmaker
- Bautista Vidal Iraola
- Filmmaker
- Martin Montes de Oca
- Filmmaker
- Joaquin Iraola
- Project creator account
- @nue_nue